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CONVERTIBLE WRAP Filed May 28, 1956 2 Sheets-Sheet l ATTORNEY INVENTOR (Iran f.

V. C. GRANT CONVERTIBLE WRAP Oct. 8, 19,57

2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed May 28, 1956 INVENTOR 74 97726: agiwiiff ATTORNEY United States Patent JO CONVERTIBLE WRAP Verna C. Grant, Los Angeles, Calif. Application May 28, 1956, Serial No. 587,904 1 Claim. (Cl. 2-88) This invention relates to a cape and has as its primary object to provide a shoulder cape more particularly suitable for womens wear which may be readily fabricated and economically manufactured and which is so designed that a cape of one size will be suitable for wear by persons of various builds thereby obviating the need of designing the cape in numerous sizes to fit persons of various sizes.

Another object is to provide a shoulder cape which is characterized by having considerable fullness and affording prominent depending folds when draped over the shoulders of the wearer.

Another object is to provide a shoulder cape which involves a simple pattern of few parts and whereby the garment may be readily assembled.

Another object is to provide a construction whereby the cape may be equipped with an upstanding collar yet be comformable to different sized necks.

A further object is to provide an arrangement whereby the cape may be worn either as fully draped or may be converted into a sleeve type garment wherein by detachably connecting front and rear lower portions of the cape side portions thereof will form loops through which the arms of the wearer may be thrust so that sides of the cape will serve as sleeves.

With the foregoing objects in view together with such other objects and advantages as may subsequently appear, the invention resides in the parts and in the combination, construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and as illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. l is a plan view of the patterned pieces for forming the body of the cape, showing the pieces in their normal arrangement before joining together;

Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the body of the cape as formed by joining the pieces shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the collar or neck-piece;

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a central fragmentary portion of the cape showing the collar or neck-piece applied;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail in section taken on the line 55 of Fig. 4 showing the manner of mounting the collar or neck-piece on the cape;

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the front of the cape showing it as worn;

Fig. 7 is a similar view of the back of the cape; and

Fig. 8 is a detail in section taken on the line 8-8 of Fig. 6 showing the manner of forming the cape with a sleeve.

Referring to the drawings more specifically A indicates the rear section of the cape which is substantially semicircular in shape, while BC indicates a pair of sidefront sections which are substantially quadrantal. The outer margins of the sections AB-C may be of any suitable contour such as plain, as shown, or scalloped. The sections when spread out side by side on a flat surface and arranged with their axes co-incident will appear as shown in Fig. 1 with the diametrical margin a of the 2 piece A lying adjacent radial margins b-c of the sections BC and with other radial margins -de of the sections BC lying close to each other. I The sections AB--C are formed of any suitable sheet fabric but are preferably formed of a fabric having substantial body such as corduroy, velvet and the like.

A feature of the invention is to form the piece A at the center of its diametrical margin with a semi-circular cut-out 10 and to provide the inner corners of the quadrantal sections BC with marginal cut-outs 1112 of near rectangular outline which register with the cut-out 10 and are designed to constitute with the latter a neck opening D as shown in Fig. 2.

Another feature of the invention is the formation of the diametrical a edge of the section A and the contiguous edges bc of the sections B-C with shallow convex curvatures commencing adjacent the cut-outs 10-1112 abruptly reaching a maximum a short distance from the cut-outs, then tapering off to the outer margins of the sections; there being such curvatures f and g on the edge of the section A at opposite sides of the cut-out 10 and their being like curvatures h and i on the edges bc of the sections BC disposed directly opposite the curvatures f-g.

In assemblying the cape, the edges b--c of the sections BC are joined to the edge a of the section A as by stitching, the parts being joined along their contiguous profiled margins leading from the cut-outs 10-1112 to the outer margins of the sections as indicated by the dotted lines j in Fig. 2. This stitching forms a shoulder seam leading from the neck opening D and because of following the convex curvatures of the joined margins produces a requisite fullness whereby the cape will be readily conformable to the shoulders of a person on which the cape is draped. The radial margins d-e of the sections BC may be unattached relative to each so as to swing free, but may be fitted with detachable fastenings if desired. The upper end of the space between the margins de open to neck opening D.

To equip the cape with an up standing collar a fabric strip E shown in Fig. 3, preferably folded over but which may be made of stitched together overlying pieces, is stitched to the margin of the neck opening D, the strip E having a straight marginal portion k which when stitched to the margin of the curved neck opening D as shown in Fig. 5 will produce an upstanding collar G as shown in Fig. 5.

When it is desired to convert the cape into a sleeve like garment the outer intermediate portions of the sections BC are attached by any suitable fastening means H to a portion of the back section A thus forming a loop I as shown in Fig. 8 through which the arms of the wearer may be passed. The fastening means H may comprise snap-fasteners, hooks or by a few stitches by needle and thread. The cape is preferably lined with a soft pliable fabric in a usual manner.

The resultant cape is characterized by hanging in well defined folds when draped on the shoulders of the wearer.

I claim:

A cape comprising a back section of substantially semicircular shape having a diametrical edge having intermediate its ends a substantially semi-circular cut-out and having on said edge intermediate the margins of said outout and the outer ends of said edge a convex curvature spaced equidistant on opposite sides of and adjacent to said cut-out, and a pair of quadrilateral side-front sections each having a radial margin thereof having .a convex curvature complementary to the aforesaid of such curvatures on said back section, said side front sections being stitched along said radial margin to the diametrical edge opposite the convex curvatures thereon and thereby forming shoulder seams, said sidefront sections having at the References Cited in the file of this patent apexes thereof cut-aways of near rectangular outline lead- FOREIGN PATENTS mg to the cut-away of sand iback sectlon to form theref with a neck opening, and an upright fabric collar stitched 19250 Great E F of 1904 to themar gins of said cut-,out and cut-awayportionsopem' 5 26'696 Great Bntam of 1905 ing between said side-front sections. 217'116 Great Britain June 1924 

